Game Distribution

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:46 pm

Alright, i'm starting work on a game, using OpenGL with irrlicht (linux), and my question is, if/when i go to distribute the game, i only need to include the irrlicht.a file, right (aside from my individual files), i'm assuming that i won't need to include any other part of the source or anything?

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:25 am

you're right, but it's Irrlicht.dll

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:14 am

If i'm distributing to Linux, not windows, i would include the .a, not the .dll right?

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:34 am

By convention, on unix systems a static library will use the .a extension. If you link a static library, you don't need to ship it with your executable. The library is linked directly into the executable, it is not dynamically loaded like a dll on windows or a shared library on unix.

Travis

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:49 pm

Oh wow, i didn't notice that it was compiled that way. I just checked it... that's pretty awesome. Thanks a lot for pointing that out to me!